Charles Allen

Charles Allen is VP of Product Management for webMethods, Inc., the leading provider of Web Automation and integration solutions for the Global 2000. Prior to joining webMethods, Mr. Allen was a founding member of Open Environment Corporation. Most recently he was responsible for technology acquisitions and joint ventures in the Asia/Pacific region. An inveterate communicator, Mr. Allen has presented extensively on the Web and distributed systems technology at events around the world.

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WIDL: Application Integration with XML

The problem of direct access to Web data from within business applications has until recently been largely ignored. The Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL) is an application of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) which allows the resources of the World Wide Web to be described as functional interfaces that can be accessed by remote systems over standard Web protocols.